Hannah Arendt – An Ethics of Personal Responsibility: Preface by Agnes Heller (Hannah Arendt-Studien / Hannah Arendt Studies) - Softcover

Assy, Bethania

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631549903 ISBN 13: 9783631549902

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2007

Synopsis

Arendt understands morality not in terms of maxims or moral principles, neither in their abstract nor in their relativistic acceptation. There is an original question raised by Arendt that has not been taken seriously enough. This question has powerful moral implications, for it directs us to choose our «company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past». This book is concerned with an ethics based on the visibility of our words and deeds, in which, apart our intentions, appearance is ethically relevant. In the ethics of personal responsibility stands a fundamental dimension of choice able to bridge the self and the world, consciousness and experience. This ethics takes into account three levels of responsibility: responsibility towards ourselves, or how we make our presence in the world; responsibility to judge; and responsibility to the world through the consistency of our actions.

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About the Author:

The Author: Bethania Assy is Associate Law Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University, and at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Philosophy from The New School University – New York (USA). She has written several articles on Hannah Arendt, and is currently working on a book project on subjectivity, ethics, and the mystical foundation of law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3631549903
• ISBN 13: 9783631549902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 191